According to Australian linguist Lynette Oates, the
Muruwari Language belongs to the Maric languages in the Pama Ngungan Family of
Australian Aboriginal languages that extends from the Kimberley's (WA), to New South Wales, Queensland, and to north-eastern Arnhem Land. Lynette Oates found that our language has borrowings
and affiliations with South Australia to Western Desert languages. Muruwari language has 18 consonants and six vowels.

In the early days of Kawinj (white man) contact with us, Anthropologist, Robert Hamilton Mathews talked to our old people. He would go down the river and sit down with them and write down what the old men said.

In 1964, Music Teacher Janet Mathews was asked to collect the music of our people. Janet worked with Muruwari People to record our songs and language.